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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: asprince on January 13, 2013, 12:04:29 pm
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I have started making a little biodiesel lately. For years I have been burning straight used vegetable oil in my diesel trucks but now I have graduated to bio. Anyone else going in these directions?
Steve
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Hard to find used oil. I do work for a lot of restaurants and they get a check 4 times a year for their old oil. They lock it up here until the pump truck comes.
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I haven’t tried Biodiesel, but I have tried water. :-D
As in the Stanly Meyer water fuel cell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer%27s_water_fuel_cell)
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I run Biodiesel for a year. It worked flawlessly. Then I run out of free veggie oil. In fact I moved to NY and last time I checked they wanted over 2 bucks a gallon of used veggie oil. It costs generally around 1.30 per gallon to make bio diesel. So i stopped making it and went back to the pump.
Good for those that can get their hands on free veggie oil
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I had a contract with the county school system. They generated more than I could use. This year they stopped serving fried foods and now bake everything. My free oil source is about to dry up. It was good while it lasted. ( five years)
Steve
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The way our government is going, pretty soon, you won,t be allowed to buy fried foods. So there will not be any vegetable oil available.
Jim
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Jim that is sad, but I think you are correct.
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I had 2 mercedes 300D's running on used vegi. About 2 years ago my free oil disappeared. With the time and labor required to collect the oil it wasn't worth it anymore to pay for the vegi oil.